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The Advantages Of Becoming An Entrepreneur – Why I Decided To Quit My Secure Job by webwiz(m): 7:14pm On Mar 06, 2017
Among the many advantages of becoming an entrepreneur, 5 were directly responsible of my jump from a secure job to my entrepreneurial adventure. Four of these advantages can be summed up in one word: Freedom. The fifth one is, according to me, the most important advantage of becoming an entrepreneur.

The first advantage of becoming an entrepreneur: Financial freedom


The first and maybe most obvious reason why I started to dream about becoming an entrepreneur was money. You see, I grew up being told that I had to study long and hard to get a good, secure and well-paid job. So I ended up having a bachelor degree, ready to receive the all the hard earned money I thought my academic degrees would get me. After all, I studied long and hard and accumulated huge student debts in the process, I would obviously be gratified with a really good salary, right? Wrong! As I got into the market, I soon realized that some friends with basic high school were paid nearly as much as I was! Even worse, they got out of school 6 or 7 years before me so they didn’t have debts and were able to accumulate a fair amount of money.

I realized that basic demand vs. offer was much more important to get well paid than a degree. This is when I began to read about all the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur. It didn’t take me too much time to realize that almost if not all the really rich people were entrepreneurs. Many had college degrees, many didn’t. The only important thing were their ability to identify market demands and to answer these demands with great value. If I could rapidly give the market enough value, in enough quantity, to answer its needs or wants, I would get rich. I would get out of debts much more quickly than by holding on to a secure job that would only get me a tiny raise every year.

Getting rich quickly was the main advantage of becoming an entrepreneur that motivated me to quit my secure job. In fact, the only way to get more money by staying an employee would have been to get old! I could have changed the world, I wouldn’t have matter to my boss… the only way to earn more was to get older.

The advantage of becoming an entrepreneur is that it doesn’t matter that you are 25, 40, or 60 years old or that you have a college degree or not. If you have a really brilliant idea, you will benefit from it.

[b][/b]The second advantage of becoming an entrepreneur: Time Freedom

This advantage really struck me after becoming an entrepreneur. If I needed to sleep a little more because I had a bad night (a little bit of insomnia is part of the disadvantages of becoming an entrepreneur), I could. If I needed to meet someone for my business, I would set the meeting outside of rush hours so I could get there in few minutes instead of an hour.

I recently calculated that the mere fact of becoming an entrepreneur had the advantage of freeing almost 7 to 8 hours each week, only because of traffic! That’s a whole day of work every week that I can use to create more business profit, go to the gym, sleep more, or anything that will bring me more happiness or money.

The last way that this advantage manifests itself is by allowing me to adapt my schedule to my wife’s schedule in order to be there for important moments. The same is true for family, friends, or simply for events I would never attend if I were still an employee having to get up at 6 every morning. This is a huge advantage for me, although I didn’t really thought about it before becoming an entrepreneur.
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Re: The Advantages Of Becoming An Entrepreneur – Why I Decided To Quit My Secure Job by eezeribe(m): 7:46pm On Mar 06, 2017
Everybody cannot be an Entrepreneur.some are Naturally configured for the extreme left(E).
Re: The Advantages Of Becoming An Entrepreneur – Why I Decided To Quit My Secure Job by webwiz(m): 8:23pm On Mar 06, 2017
You are absolutely right, everybody cannot become an entrepreneur. But anybody can become an entrepreneur because nobody was born an entrepreneur. It is a learnable skill just like learning how to type, you can learn to become an entrepreneur. With the right resources and mentor, you can become an entrepreneur.

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